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As you tap away on your mobile phone, you need to be careful. you could be giving away your private banking details-simply by the way you use your phone.

Hackers have found a way to extract information from every move you make with your phone, including how we type, tilt or even swipe, experts have found, they can use are movements to guess a four-digit PIN with 70% accuracy on the first try and 100% by the fifth try.

They can even use the 25 sensors on many phones to access bank data and e-mails, New Castle University researchers discovered. The hack requires malicious software to be downloaded on to a smartphone. Information from the internal sensors is then collected.

Passwords can be guessed from patterns because we tend to use the same finger and movements to type them. Most smart phones have accelerometers, which track tiny movements, and rotation sensors, which measure twisting. They also have gyroscope sensors, which use gravity to track positions and tilt of the handset.

Personal fitness devices could theoretically be hacked in the same way , to find out where the user is and what they are doing. Most smartphones, tablets and other wearables are now equipped with a multitude of sensors. But because mobile apps and websites don’t need to ask permission to access most of them, malicious programmes can covertly listen in on your sensor data and use it to discover a wide range of sensitive information about you, such as phone call timing, physical activities and even your touch actions, PIN and passwords.

The hackers could spy on any web pages opened on a phone, as long as the page hosting the malicious software was left open on another tab. Hackers can even access data when a phone is locked, it was found that each user creates patterns by clicking, scrolling, holding and tapping. With a known website, they could determine what part of the page the user was clicking on and what they were typing.

Google and Apple have been asked about the problem, they have said nobody has so far been able to come up with a solution, user could protect themselves by only using apps from approved stores and changing their password regularly.